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Cape Horn
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Author : Felix Riesenberg
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Cape Horn written by Felix Riesenberg and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with History categories.
Felix Riesenberg history of sea travel around Cape Horn. Begining with Magellan’s magnificent discovery of the strait through to the Pacific at the tip of South America. It is difficult for us to comprehend the feat this was until we note that several other explorers attempted it, but few were able to conquer the incredible hardships, nor manage their men well enough to quell the mutinies. The story of the Cape Horn region, from the days of the first discoverers through the glorious age of sail, including the author’s own experiences; wherein an important geographical discovery is made.
Cape Horn
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Author : Felix Riesenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Cape Horn written by Felix Riesenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with categories.
Around Cape Horn
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Author : Charles Davis
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Around Cape Horn written by Charles Davis and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Travel categories.
Charles Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. During the first half of the last century, he was also acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright.
The Last Time Around Cape Horn
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Author : William F. Stark
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-04-29
The Last Time Around Cape Horn written by William F. Stark and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-29 with History categories.
In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Rounding Cape Horn And Other Sea Stories
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Author : Walter McRoberts
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
Rounding Cape Horn And Other Sea Stories written by Walter McRoberts and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Rounding Cape Horn, and Other Sea Stories" by Walter McRoberts. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Around Cape Horn Once More
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Author : Paul W Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Around Cape Horn Once More written by Paul W Simpson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with History categories.
Around Cape Horn Once More is the story of the French Bounty Clipper Ship, Montebello. She was built in Nantes, France in 1900 and was lost on the rugged and lonely south coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1906. This book is a tale of the adventures of the Montebello and the men who sailed her around the globe. It brings to light a period of France's maritime history that has never before been told in such thrilling and dramatic detail. ""we heard the roar of breakers, and then we knew that we were close to the land, and there was still no visible light. All hands turned out to put on canvas with a view to heading the vessel off the shore, but we had received the warning too late and within a few minutes we had struck on the fearful rocks. The ship shivered all over with the shock. I shall never forget the sensation it created. She bumped hard several times and threatened to go to pieces at any moment. The seas broke over her from end to end.""
Cape Horn
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Author : Felix Riesenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Cape Horn written by Felix Riesenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Cape Horn Region (Chile) categories.
Cape Horn
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Author : Bernard Moitessier
language : en
Publisher: Adlard Coles
Release Date : 2003
Cape Horn written by Bernard Moitessier and has been published by Adlard Coles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Voyages and travels categories.
This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn. Setting out from Tahiti, they took the logical route" because it was the fastest, taking them through the Roaring Forties, through the high latitudes of never ceasing gale-force winds and through iceberg territory. Their survival was due to careful preparation, great seamanship and their sense of harmony with their boat, "Joshua", and the sea."
The Gold Diggings Of Cape Horn
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Author : John Randolph Spears
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Gold Diggings Of Cape Horn written by John Randolph Spears and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Gold mines and mining categories.
Rounding The Horn
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Author : Dallas Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Rounding The Horn written by Dallas Murphy and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Travel categories.
For as far back as he can remember, Dallas Murphy has been sea-struck. Since he began to read, "besotted by salt-water dreams and nautical language," he studied the lore surrounding a place of mythic proportions: the ever-alluring Cape Horn. And after years of dreaming -- and sailing -- he finally made his voyage there. In this lively, thrilling blend of history, geography, and modern-day adventure, Murphy shows how the myth crossed wakes with his reality. Cape Horn is a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America -- 55 degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West. It's a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty, one that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water between Cape Horn and the Antarctic peninsula was the only gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and it's a place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth. Rounding the Horn is the ultimate maritime rite of passage, and in Murphy's hands, it becomes a thrilling, exuberant tour. Weaving together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him -- from Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook -- and interspersed with breathtaking descriptions of the surrounding wilderness, the result is a beautifully crafted, immensely enjoyable read.